Walter Hosack AIA posted on the AIA Environment forum to which I replied, about organic thinking as something architects could advance as a key to the survival of our place on earth, noting that design is always two things: “…The first is a gift. The second is a responsibility”, and suggesting architects have a broader responsibility

John Fullerton posted “Hell hath no limits” on how Wendell Berry’s poetry clearly speaks of the great error of economics, also discussed by Herman Daly, in overlooking the issue of “scale” as having natural effects far different than numbers do. My comment was: __________ The different effects of scale in the natural world is indeed

Posts on this site preceding this one were transferred from my oldest blog, I called “Alongshot“, from its blogspot.com site. My main archive of blog posts is still at my original “Reading Nature’s Signals” blog, perhaps to be transferred at some point, and quite worth site searching for key words like this one for mentions of

What’s the cost of increasing investment when you’re already over-invested…?? Many organic and environmental systems display talents for taking care of themselves we could use, using internal steering to avoid approaching hazards and be responsive to change. In studying how they do it one comes across some wonderful new lines f practical of environmental systems

The problem with “going to the edge” in nature is she keeps moving the edge, back and forth. It’s a trap. Having a practice of always maximizing your take and going to the limit leaves you vulnerable to natures perennial habit of leading you on when she moves it out, unaware that the natural next

A post to Wild Resiliency on The Seven Keystone Processes – adding that thought is an ecological experiment too. __________ I liked the statement at the top, that: “we too easily believe ourselves to be the center of the universe and the measure of the world”. How we somehow manage to conjure up the notion

Designing a “dashboard” of “Outcomes and Metrics” for guiding worldwide efforts for our pulling back from the brink of of environmental catastrophe, to begin healing our relationship with the earth, is of some considerable importance, and a fascinating task. Below is one email exchange and links. Applying the transformational vision of Four Years Go a work

from my Finance Lab blog posts Nov 2013 note: Since this popular post was written I’ve kept pushing my search for better explanations. It’s basically a very simple universal principle for how growth leads to stability. Every successful ‘project’ in nature, of any kind or scale, starts with using its resources to build more access to

from RunningOnEmpty post 1/18/08 Thinking 100 years into the future with assumptions from 100 years in the past… is a problem. It’s tragic to hear of Barak’s crystal clear statement about global warming. We know that preventing global warming requires physically lowering our total resource footprint on the earth so we can live sustainably. That